I've probably seen them more than you have, I just don't post as much about it. You and the rest of the thread combined may have me beat
I have a playlist with all his old stuff permanently on my desktop... actually one of the few things even on my desktop after reinstalling Windows when I got an SSD - everything else I just go back and get from my old hard drives as needed, and well, turns out you don't need much else when you have masao. I often leave his videos running in the background instead of music/tv stuff, for hours or days, there've been plenty of times I've watched everything he's made in one sitting, or fallen asleep with his stuff playing. That probably sounds a lot creepier than it actually is, the guy's just fascinating and has a soothing voice and I love his thought patterns, they're like crazy mental yoga that totally makes sense even if they're wrong and don't make sense. Kind of like the way you can recognize music and art that's been made on drugs if you've done those drugs yourself, or can follow the train of thought of someone high while you're sober. There is a little masao in all of us, he's harmless like ulillillia, so it's more fun to just witness and enjoy and try to understand. And frankly, I love psychopathology, I grew up downtown in a big city full of crazy people that were fun to talk to, and one of my favorite books is The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. Hard to believe it's been almost three years of masao now, damn.
One tidbit I've never seen mentioned, it took me probably several dozen viewings to catch it because it's just so ridiculous... in the "noodle soup - total failure" video, or something very similar to that, his soup boils over, surprise surprise. Then from off camera Masao throws in a few almonds and says something like "this should calm it down". Of course, nothing happens. Just another totally ridiculous event that I overlooked the first several playthroughs because it didn't have any effect on anything.
tpaine posted:GoldenLionTamarin posted:theres something disturbing yet beautiful about masao, like a character in a modernist novel dwelling in the very bottom of the human condition yet displaying a certain undeniable spirit
hes whimsy made flesh
as you get deeper and deeper you'll find out that he is actually mentally ill in some way, and was actually sexually attracted to his sister and he admitted that to her
mentally ill, you say??
aerdil posted:he used to work for a leftist party in canada until he got kicked out for disagreeing with too much and lives in absolute filth. if he's mentally ill, then, why, surely most of the rhizzone would be crazy too and that can't be right
I saw a comment from him that he used to work for a leftist party in italy and got kicked out for disagreeing too much
perhaps he gets a little confused with his own politics but the word 'sambuca' is said with a rare confidence that few men can muster these days